Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most immediate changes were physical. The new freshman dormitories were under construction and 1917 was the last class to enter directly into Harvard's individualistic living arrangements, designed half a century before for young gentlemen. All-college dining facilities in Memorial Hall and the Freshman Union were opened in order to foster a greater sense of community. In 1915, Harvard departmental libraries were united when Widener Memorial Library was opened to the entire University...
...Lowell's program had been to educate students into ideals of public service. Thus their sparce, grave Commencement was oddly logical. For the students who had favored duty to country and universal conscription were far from "gentlemen scholars." William H. Meeker, who had been the President of the CRIMSON during that year, died the following September, 1917, at Pau, France. Like many who were absent at graduation, the Class Poet William Wilcox '17, mailed in his poem from the Newport News aviation camp. There was no Ivy Oration; the Orator, Henry Wentworth, was away in training camp...
...Southern Gentlemen...
...horror and hyperbole, the journalists of the American Revolution nonetheless used incongruously rich and elegant rhetoric to describe (as one account had it) "those difficulties and obstacles which require the most consummate fortitude to surmount." They all tried to sound like gentlemen, a journalistic ambition long out of fashion...
...sophomore captain's major criticism of American rugby is that it is too savage. "Good rugby is a gentlemen's game," says Sione. "Most American players confuse it with football -- and that's the wrong attitude. Rugby is fast-thinking and fast-action, and if a player thinks more, he can be less agressive...